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Payment module refactor stalled — context lost after team member departure

In ProgressMediumStoryEngineering65% · Sprint ends Friday. 5 days no activity.

Current state

Payment module refactor is stalled. Original developer left the company mid-sprint and no context has been handed over.

Formal owner
Tom Park, Software Engineer
Current owner
Internal person — Tom Park needs a context handoff before work can resume.
Next-action owner
Tom Park, Software Engineer
Next step
Post a context handoff comment to the ticket summarising key decisions and outstanding work.
Real blocker
New assignee Tom Park has no context on prior decisions, active branch, or outstanding work.
Last activity
1d ago — Tom Park commented: "I've been assigned but I'm not sure where Jamie left things."
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Observations

  • Decisionjira95% conf6d ago

    Jamie's last commit message: "WIP: multi-currency reconciliation — using Stripe multi-currency API directly, not a custom layer. PaymentProcessor is deprecated, all new work in PaymentService."

  • Action itemjira88% conf6d ago

    Outstanding work per last commit: reconciliation job in payment-worker.ts (around line 847) was not updated for multi-currency yet.

  • Status updateslack92% conf1d ago

    Tom Park in Slack #payment-refactor: "I've been looking at the branch but there's no documentation on what was decided. Can someone help me get up to speed?"

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Context handoff for Tom Park:

Jamie Reid was refactoring the payment module to support multi-currency. Key decisions made:

1. Using Stripe's multi-currency API directly — no custom abstraction layer was built.
2. The old PaymentProcessor class is deprecated — all new work goes into PaymentService.
3. Outstanding: the reconciliation job in payment-worker.ts (around line 847) was not updated for multi-currency yet. That is the next piece of work.

Active branch: feat/multi-currency-payment
Full context: #payment-refactor Slack channel, thread from April 18.

Let me know if a call with someone familiar with Jamie's work would help — happy to set that up today.

Timeline

  1. Status changedJamie Reid14d agojira

    Story assigned to Jamie Reid. Work begins on multi-currency payment refactor.

  2. Owner changed5d agojira

    Jamie Reid left the company. Ticket re-assigned to Tom Park.

  3. External replyTom Park1d agojira

    Tom Park added Jira comment: "I've been assigned but I'm not sure where Jamie left things on the payment module."

  4. Went stale8h agojira

    No code commits or Jira updates for 5 days since reassignment.